Designers of the Future Award - 3D Printed Crystals with Swarovski
SWAROVSKI AND DESIGN MIAMI ANNOUNCE WINNERS OF
THE 2019 DESIGNERS OF THE FUTURE AWARD

For the fifth consecutive year Swarovski and Design Miami are pleased to
announce winners of the Swarovski Designers of the Future Award: Shanghai-born installation
artist Juju Wang, Dutch design duo Studio Klarenbeek and Dros, and London-based lighting
designer Raffe Burrell. The commissioned works, which apply pioneering and sustainable
crystal technologies, were unveiled to an influential audience at Design Miami/ Basel, June 2019.

For Home Décor, Studio Klarenbeek & Dros presented a series of 3D printed crystal objects inspired
by the reduction of the Arctic icecaps observed between 1980 till present due to global warming, to
capture the world’s precious ecology for future generations. Eschewing traditional crystal cutting, the
designers are working closely with Swarovski’s innovation division to champion the possibilities of 3D
printed crystal, using the material for the first time ever in Light Sapphire to emulate the Arctic’s waters.
The objects - when viewed from above - represent the contour of the arctic icecaps as captured by satellites. The bottom of each object represents the first recording and the top shows the current stage. The horizontal layers are representing both icelayers and a timeline

Over the last two years, Swarovski’s technicians have developed 3D crystal capabilities to create more
detailed structures not possible when cutting crystal in the conventional way. The home objects will
work as building blocks, connecting together to create covetable table top objects that reflect the everchanging icecaps, and reaching new heights of fascination and form in a range that expresses unique
interpretations of Swarovski’s signature sparkle.

Nadja Swarovski, Member of the Swarovski Executive Board, comments: “We are delighted to
announce Juju Wang, Studio Klarenbeek and Dros, and Raffe Burrell as the 2019 Swarovski Designers
of the Future. We are excited to see these dynamic emerging talents engage with Swarovski crystal as
a creative medium to help shape the future of responsible design, and we look forward to showcasing
their innovative work in Basel this June.”

Aric Chen, 2019 Curatorial Director, Design Miami/, comments: “The Swarovski Designers of the
Future award has an incredible track record of highlighting emerging talents who go on to make an
impact on design. It's exciting to see that legacy continue with Raffe Burrell, Juju Wang, and Studio
Klarenbeek and Dros.”

Studio Klarenbeek & Dros will challenge the use of space with their installation, experimenting with 3D crystal printing. ‘In this time of big changes, we’re not only developing materials, we’re not only developing products, but we’re also developing the whole infrastructure and the social coherence around it with the aim of positive change, and that’s thrilling,’ finds the Dutch design duo, whose designs seek to ‘bring together local production, people and their environments.’

Algae Lab is located at the site of LUMA in Arles, and is focusing on the wetland specific bio-based material in order to come to new value propositions.
In particular, Studio Klarenbeek & Dros research the potential of algae as an alternative for non-biodegradable plastics.
The development of a polymer from algae can be used to grow and create consumables and innovative products.
The serie of objects are related to the culture and history of the region, as utensils from the depot of Musee Departemental Arles Antique.

The objects should be conceived to serve the needs of various users and consumers of the museum and region.
The laboratory displays the production chain so the visitor can experience the whole cycle of production from the raw material to the final product.

Studio Klarenbeek & Dros on Algae
' Algae produce the majority of oxygen we breath in, by binding carbon dioxides and converting it into biomass, as they absorb carbon (C) and produce O2 as a waste product: clean air..
In a relatively brief period, humans released a vast amount of CO2 into the atmosphere, from organic matter that lay buried in the ground for millions of years.
With effects such as global heating, acidification of the oceans as a result, it's important to bind CO2 from the atmosphere as quickly as possible.
And this can be done by binding the carbon to biomass. As designers, we love nothing more than producing mass:
products and materials. So, for us it's the golden formula. Everything that surrounds us our - products, houses and cars - can be a form of CO2 binding. If we think in these terms, makers can bring about a revolution.
It's about thinking beyond the carbon footprint: instead of zero emissions we need 'negative' emissions. '

Ongoing research on Algae of Studio Klarenbeek & Dros
'In our research, we are concerned with binding carbon to biomass and converting algae into a biopolymer.
Algae can produce polysaccharides and starches. Instead of using fossil plastics, adding up even more CO2 or biopolymers from corn or potatoes,
which is at the expense of our food and land, we're focussing on Seagriculture, the cultivation of for instance macroalga [seaweed] in sea.
As it grows, it filters the seawater, absorbing CO2 and producing a starch that can be used as a raw material for bioplastics or binding agents.

After three years of research with Salga Seaweeds, Danvos, Wageningen University, Avans Biobased Lab in Breda and other institutes,
we were invited to establish an open research and production lab at the luma Foundation in Arles.
Here, since February 2017, we have worked with Luma on social and local production in Arles region.
The CO2 emissions and pollution from factories at the mouth of the Rhone are filtered by algae, with the by-product: Biomass.
We are attempting to build a bridge between scientific research and the local economy.

We have 3d scanned historical roman glassware found in the river Rhone from the collection of the Musee Departemental in Arles and reproduced them with locally grown algae from this same region.
In the Algae Lab, local native species are researched and processed into biopolymers, that can replace fossil plastics.
In principle, we can make anything from this local algae polymer: from shampoo bottles to tableware or rubbish bins.
Our ambition is to provide local companies, such as restaurants and catered events in the city with tableware from the AlgaeLab.'
Text credits; Changemakers / museum Boijmans van Beuningen

Mission atelier LUMA
Algae Lab is part of atelier LUMA, a non-profit program that sets out to actively experiment with design and creative intelligence, in rethinking more ecologically sound and regionally embedded forms of production. The work begins in Arles and the Camargue. Through publications and conferences of a comprehensive set of design-based research, projects shall evolve through knowledge partners; and a plethora of interconnected design/business/research shall spawn new relations and new ways of working.

The Mycelium Project - Print and Grow
Studio Klarenbeek & Dros are the first in the world who have 3D-printed living mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms. A technology we are developing since 2011. Combining the threadlike network of fungi with local raw materials, enables us to create products with a negative carbon footprint.

Using this infinite natural source as a living glue for binding organic waste. Once it's full-grown and dried, it turns into a structural, stable and renewable material, comparable to cork or wood.

Why now?
Most of our surrounding products are created through intensive industrial processes. We're imprisoned in this chain of waste, both in material fabrication as well as the negative effect on our surroundings due to transportation of resources and goods.
3D-printing just partly provides in a solution, since we can produce locally by connecting nearby 'Makers' through existing web portals. In the Netherlands for example, the available Maker network with 3D-printers is so dense, you can upload a design, and collect it by bike once its finished.
The problem is the applied materials, which are mostly oil based plastics, and industrially produced. The same goes up for 'bioplastics', which also deal with other issues, such as the use of GMO's.
Worldwide there are little producers, resulting in extensive transportation. Secondly there is little attention for the working conditions of Makers, as the printers mostly have no filters and are mostly applied in unventilated spaces. This can cause health risks, especially if you consider actual ingredients are kept secret.
As this market is relatively young, the time is now to introduce new possibilities and hand out alternatives.

What makes this unique?
We've searched for ways to use local resources, and implementing growth in the fabrication process. 3D-printers work by gradually melting and layering plastics. Instead of using plastics, we use local land waste, and mycelium as a binder. The machine simultaneously prints the infill and outer shell, which prevents its fresh mycelium and straw mixture from falling apart. After printing, the structure is placed in an incubator to grow and gain strength.

What do we grow?
This technology can be applied in a broad spectrum of applications. We started with the 'Mycelium Chair' as the archetype for a functional design object. Form-wise the chair is inspired on mycelial networks and reflects the unimaginable freedom of 3D printing. The popping out mushrooms are both aesthetic and a 'proof of concept' as you can clearly see the mycelium has successfully grown through its structure.
'Veiled Lady', Mycelium Project 2.0, is printed in one go and inspired by the net structure of its equally named fungus; Veiled Lady. As we've controlled the growth of mushrooms, they're not in conflict with its function as a stool, and hidden as jewelry within its structure.

What is it good for?
The plant material produces oxygen during its life cycle, and our production process eliminates the necessity of heating materials in the printing process, thus reducing the use of energy. Adding up those two facts, combined with the use of local resources and production, it becomes possible to create products with a negative 'carbon footprint'. Instead of wasting less, we strive to absorb emission.
After use, the product is fully compostable, and can be disposed without harming the environment. On the contrary, it will fertilize our surroundings!

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N65 Living Fine Dust Absorbing and Printed Moss Structure - Rendering

Every meter of our moss structure compensates the emission of over 30.000 car kilometers

N65 Living Printed Moss Structures

N65 Living Printed Moss Structures

N65 Living Printed Moss Structures - Lab prototype at our studio

2019 First Pilot setup, currently along the N65 with Kwekerij Aad Vermeer

2019 First Pilot setup, currently along the N65 with Kwekerij Aad Vermeer

Eric Klarenbeek is the initiator of the biotech company Krown, as a green pioneer, scaling new technologies in order to create impact. Known for his collaborative projects such as 'The Growing Pavilion', designed with Pascal Leboucq of 'The New Heroes' (First shown at the Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven 2019) and 'The Circular Gardin' for Carlo Rati (Fuorisalone, botanical garden Milan, 2019). These are projects for raising awareness, educate and stimulate experiences of the public showing future implementations of biomaterials.
These mycelium based products and architecture is grown with mycelium and agricultural waste only, and is therefore one of the greenest technology and eco-compatible materials on the planet. Mycelium is the network of fungal wires, which acts as a natural glue that binds biomass together, resulting in a fully circular material. These products are licensed by Ecovative and 'Cradle2Cradle Gold Certified'.

Coca Cola wraps flooded the beaches of the North Sea, due to 7 containers which fell of a ship. Normally these plastic streams cannot be recycled. Therefore we collected 700 kilo of cola wraps, and cleaned and recycled them by hand

Coca Cola wraps flooded the beaches of the North Sea, due to 7 containers which fell of a ship. Normally these plastic streams cannot be recycled. Therefore we collected 700 kilo of cola wraps, and cleaned and recycled them by hand

Coca Cola wraps flooded the beaches of the North Sea, due to 7 containers which fell of a ship. Normally these plastic streams cannot be recycled. Therefore we collected 700 kilo of cola wraps, and cleaned and recycled them by hand

Coca Cola wraps flooded the beaches of the North Sea, due to 7 containers which fell of a ship, forming a treat for the local ecology. Normally these plastic streams cannot be recycled. Therefore we collected 700 kilo of cola wraps, and cleaned and recycled them by hand

For a playing park for children 'Speelbos Nieuw Wulven' in Houten near Utrecht, the Netherlands, we created all objects and furniture.

Based on it's cultural heritage, as the romans used to live in this area and built their Fectio fortress around 3AD. Nearly 2000 year later it became a strategic area for the Dutch Waterline (Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie) and once again they decided to build a fortress (1870) and found the roman settlement.

We created a series of benches, travelling through wooden construction techniques and habits as through a timeline, each bench representing another era, from 0AD till present.

Besides this we created granite navigation maps. Objects, such as an enlargement of a roman mask, which was found in the area. After we made a 3D scan of the original, we were able to enlarge it, resulting in a lower resolution version of the original mask (realised by Erick den Boer).

Furthermore; a concrete periscope-house and shooting wall both based on the dutch waterline, and a reinterpretation of a middle age settlement also found during archaeological research.

Led Leaf
The Led Leaf is a one 5 Watts LED lighting system introducing durable and efficient LEDs with minimal material and low cost production methods in a do-it-yourself package. The leaf itself functions not only as a lampshade, but at the same time as a cooler for the high-efficient power LED.

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Kids Climbing Rack - Amsterdam West - Designed and printed by Kids

Kids Climbing Rack - Amsterdam West - Designed and printed by Kids

Kids Climbing Rack - Amsterdam West - Designed and printed by Kids

Kids Climbing Rack - Amsterdam West - Designed and printed by Kids

Kids Climbing Rack - Amsterdam West - Designed and printed by Kids

Kids Climbing Rack - Amsterdam West
A Climbing rack and handles designed and printed by kids from the neighbourhood. For The Beach, County of Amsterdam.

Lucid Dream - Crystal Glass Lights
Handblown crystal-glass with high brightness LEDs. The lucid dream shows the ability of glass to transmit light by internal reflection, spreading light energy of LED's on an extreme efficient way throughout its complete surface, as an illuminating soap bubble.

Movie: co-directed by Efrem Stein. We started working together during his performance 'Opgezet', which was based on my animatronic cat Poekie. We thought it would be great to create something together, resulting in this movie. Many thanks to the performers who supported this project! Please take time to see it on youtube at high quality.
Work Survey, movie, 9:29 min. Performers; Efrem Stein, Marta Navaridas, Annette Welling, Jonna Ollikainen

Meubilair Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie for Ministry of the Netherlands
For the Dutch Waterline. A military defense line, covering the middle part of the Netherlands, our studio is selected to design the identity of the area, including it's furniture, fencing and lighting. Its main defense line counts 85 kilometers, running from Amsterdam till Rotterdam, its function was to protect the west side of the Netherlands.

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Liniemeubilair Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie

Liniemeubilair Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie

Liniemeubilair Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie

Liniemeubilair Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie

Liniemeubilair Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie

Liniemeubilair Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie

Liniemeubilair Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie

Liniemeubilair Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie

Liniemeubilair Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie

Liniemeubilair Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie

Liniemeubilair Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie

Liniemeubilair Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie

Liniemeubilair Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie

Liniemeubilair Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie

Liniemeubilair Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie for Ministry of the Netherlands
For the Dutch Waterline. A military defense line, covering the middle part of the Netherlands, our studio is selected to design the identity of the area, including it's furniture, fencing and lighting.

Its main defense line counts 85 kilometers, running from Amsterdam till Rotterdam, its function was to protect the west side of the Netherlands.

The waterline Bench indicates the water level of the Dutch Waterline, De Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie. A formal defense method in times of threat of the Netherlands, which split the Netherlands in two, running from North to South, to protect the west side of the Netherlands.

Having operated for centuries, being a secret defense tool till the 50'ties of last century, the dutch were able to artificially flood big pieces of land, to isolate their economical centre. This with only around 30 cm of water, soldiers weren't able to see roads, holes, obstacles. It disabled militaries to cross this kilometres wide boarder, as it was to deep to walk through and too shallow for ships.

With GPS, we measured the exact water height in case of flooding, resulting in this series of benches, varying from ground level height, to 1,40 meters, depending on the exact location.

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Windlight World Expo Shanghai - Klarenbeek Dros

Windlight World Expo Shanghai - Klarenbeek Dros

Windlight World Expo Shanghai - Klarenbeek Dros

Windlight for John Kormeling's World Expo pavilion Shanghai
For John Körmeling pavilion we developed an autonomous functioning wind powered LED streetlight, with a warm but high light output brought by 20Watt of LED's!

Windlight was presented at the world Expo 2010 in Shanghai. Placed on the Dutch pavilion "Happy Street" by Dutch Architect John Körmeling.

Windlight started as an experimental proposal for city lighting in the Dutch city of Zaandam. It brings a positive, happy atmosphere to areas that are demolished, abandoned or under development, where it serves as a temporary mobile tool for its transition period.

Windlight is also a pure functional design. Near highways, on bridges and in open areas it lights up at night, to alert car drivers of sudden extreme winds.

Floating Light Project
A lamp floating on its own heat. From 2003 till present we've made numerous Floating lights, for private and commercial clients.
The Floating light has been in the collection and produced for several years by Moooi.com.

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Pixelpoort - Cycling tunnel - Designed by the community
Windmills, multiculturalism, wooden houses, nature, harbours and polders. Over 700 local residents of Zaanstad participated in the tunnel design via our website.

Via www.pixelpoort.nl people submitted images drawn pixel by pixel on the website, illustrating what they were most proud about in their region. These pixels were translated into tiles, and is now realised in the 'bicycle gate' between Amsterdam and Zaandam.

For the Lapse in time exhibition at Experimenta in Lisbon Experimentadesign
we created a new piece Plié. As a mix between performance and product, we installed the presented works during the opening, starting with an empty space, which slowly converted into the exhibition space, working together with choreographer Nuno Almeida and his students from the dance academy of Lisbon.

By turning round the order of the net and curtain a 3-dimensional effect is being introduced as a window darkening system.
3D Curtains for a private apartment in Belgium, which has been designed by Ooze Architects. For an apartment at the seaside of Knokke, Belgium, we were asked to design the curtains for the living room and bedrooms. The living room has a view on the sea, and for this we created 3 layers of 'voile' curtains, working as a 3D panorama, with on every layer different boats in depth, drawn by Eric Klarenbeek. The backside view of he apartment is poor due to the facing housing block. Therefore we created two layers of curtains. One thick light absorbing curtain, with the dutch dunes, and one layer of a thin voile, with plants and animals. Photographed by Eric Klarenbeek in the dutch dunes of the island Texel. Especially at night it's difficult to distinguish whether its real or virtual, giving you a feeling of being able to step out of your door, right in the fields.
Deluge 3D Curtains, at Flight of Objects - Salone del mobile Milan, with Drift, Studio Molen and Sebastian Brajkovic.
For the Salone del Mobile we created a landscape titled Deluge consisting out of 2 layers of silk organza, confronting us with a reality and time where nature disasters are breaking records that is either poetic as well as overwhelming and hits you right in the face.

The Eye jewelleries and movie was first presented at the Wonder Room of Selfridges, London, UK together with three unique Eye Jewellery collector pieces. It's viewed over 250.000 times on youtube, and got published and broadcasted worldwide. It was published in the Times (2x), Indian Times, ABC, Der Spiegel and was nominated as Top Rated Fashion Trend by ITN and Asia Television, which has over 18 million viewers.
Eye Jewellery, Music: NIN - Ghost, 1:08 min

For the Salone del Mobile 2010 we were invited by Droog to participate in 'Everything must go', reviving and transforming items lost to bankruptcies. For Droog Design we created a series of three perfumes; Miller, Flowergirl and The odd one out. The second hand salt shakers were collected by Droog Design, and were upgraded by turning it into a perfume. It is created with locally found ingredients, from a local distiller, a perfume maker and a windmill.
In times where the food and cosmetic industry is merely using synthetic components, we have to find a new balance in how we treat nature and ourselves. Deluge is based on local, natural and ecological ingredients. The bottle won't leak it's perfume, it only gives a drop when you shake, due to its capillary action.

For the exhibition 'NAT Designing Nature' we created an autonomous functioning solar powered light searching robot Alef0, saving his energy to burn dots on his journey. The idea was to infect the other design pieces in the exhibition. Based on analog robotics, he walks while seeking with his eyes for bright light sources, while simultaneously saving energy to burn dots on his path. At night he (and his solarcells) were covered with a blanket, to prevent the risk of burning the whole place down.

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Poekie

Animatronic cat. Runs on analog robotics and sensors 'sense' presence

Mycelium, The Plastic of the future. Documentary about the global initiatives on Mycelium, by VICE, Motherboard.

( Design / Art + new tech / materials ) = imagining the future
Eric Klarenbeek and Maartje Dros are tutors at the master Social Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Tutor at the master of Architecture and Urbanism in Tilburg and founder of the ArTechLab at the ArtEZ Academy, a multidisciplinary research lab, established in the AKI ArtEZ Academy. Founded in 2012, the ArTechLab guides art, design and science students in executing both applied and experimental research.
Please visit these websites for more info:https://www.designacademy.nl/Study/Master/General/SocialDesign.aspxwww.artechlab.nl

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About >
Klarenbeek ∞ Dros do special projects, or let's say unusual, for unusual people, projects or purposes. Their studio connects creatives, designers, architects and local crafts. We search for new meaning and principles in technology, resources, objects and spaces, for unexplored connections between materials, production methods, makers and users. Scale and appliance are irrelevant.

Maartje Dros and Eric Klarenbeek form a designer duo combine social design with technology. Their aim is to challenge and explore the use of space by connecting history, crafts and new technologies in archetypical objects to invite and evoke new use of space.

Eric Klarenbeek (Amsterdam 1978) graduated in 2003 at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Since then he has designed for clients such as Droog Design, Marcel Wanders's Moooi, Lidewij Edelkoort, Makkink Bey, Eneco and the Ministry of the Netherlands. He is founder of the ArTechLab at the AKI ArtEZ art academy (www.artechlab.nl). His projects have been exhibited and published extensively. His windlight is presented at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai and The Floating Light Project was awarded for innovative design at The Design Academy Eindhoven.

'My work is characterized by interaction and innovation. My products can be in motion, react on our emotions or respond on developments in our society. I search for new meaning and principles in objects, for unexplored connections between materials, production methods, makers and users. Every project is a research, resulting in interior and public space appliances and designs.' Eric Klarenbeek.

Maartje Dros (Texel 1980), also a graduate of the Design Academy Eindhoven acts on the use and dynamics on the periphery of space and borders. It forms the base of her work that explores possibilities on use of space and our common grounds. The outcomes requests collaboration between user and space rather than it is giving stage to a sole object. Not only the hardware of a city is being questioned and integrated her designs, the physical outcome can be seen as an expression of social structures.
www.maartjedros.nl

He and Maartje were selected to design the public space furniture and identity of the New Dutch Waterline, commissioned by the Dutch Ministry for Infrastructure and Environment DLG. A formal defense line of around 85 kilometres, stretching from Amsterdam to Rotterdam, forming a protective ring around the western and economical part of the Netherlands.
At the moment they're working on varying projects, such as the design of a formal Roman Castellum Fectio, established around 4 AD till around 300 AD, commissioned by the Province Utrecht https://publiekgemaakt.nl/castellum-fectio-historie-in-ontwikkeling/.